Global warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps, but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look at the economic, politi…
The author of The Biotech Century exposes the coming depletion of oil reserves and illuminates the potential of sustainable hydrogen fuel to replace fossil fuels. Contents: 1. Between realities 2. Sliding down hubbert's bell curve 3. Energy and the rise and fall of civilizations 4. The fossil -fuel era 5. The islamist wild card 6. A global meltdown,etc.